Palmar Hyperhidrosis - Sweaty Palms

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Permalink Reply by Colleen on June 9, 2009 at 2:54pm

Also please let me know any feedback positive or negative.

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Permalink Reply by Melissa J. Roth on June 9, 2009 at 8:21pm

I've worked successfully with a couple of these. One was an actor who sweated so badly no one would hold the script book after he did his reading and once, the paper melted due to the wetness. We had 3 sessions and he was fine. Session #1 I gave him a control room with dials. #2 addressed anxiety since it only happened when he was anxious and #3 had him imagine a tube which ran from each hand to his throat. When his hands felt wet the fluid would travel up his arms and into his throat to be swallowed. it worked. The next day he flew off to NY to read for a commercial and got the part. I really didn't know what to do so I just did some pretty straight forward imagery with reverse anchoring and it worked.

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Permalink Reply by Colleen on June 12, 2009 at 12:32pm

Thanks for the response. The research I have been doing seems to support addressing the anxiety as well as the anticipation of the response. I like the control room idea. He was OK with swallowing the sweat? I like the idea, but the image kind of gets to me. I guess I can just check this out with the client first.

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Permalink Reply by Melissa J. Roth on June 12, 2009 at 7:03pm

He swallowed the excess fluid in his body "before" it became sweat. Swallowing his sweat would be gross. But we all swallow various fluids without thinking about it--saliva, tears sometimes, post nasal drainage, etc. So, if you turn all that liquid into a fountain he can swallow it just like he does other bodily fluids. You can make it non-gross.

Colleen said:

Thanks for the response. The research I have been doing seems to support addressing the anxiety as well as the anticipation of the response. I like the control room idea. He was OK with swallowing the sweat? I like the idea, but the image kind of gets to me. I guess I can just check this out with the client first.

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Permalink Reply by Colleen on June 13, 2009 at 10:31am

Great! Thanks. I did one session and we worked primarily with anxiety and the anticipation.

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